Vacancy title:
Deputy Manager - Operations

Jobs at:
Hela Intimates EPZ Ltd

Deadline of this Job:
20th September 2018

Duty Station:
Nairobi, Kenya

Summary
Date Posted: 6th September 2018 , Base Salary: Not Disclosed , Employment Type: Full-Time

Hela is a $200 million company focused on apparel manufacturing, design and innovation. We are headquartered in Sri Lanka and have a reach of 12 factories across 4 countries. Our strength is our people and with a team of over 15,000 across the globe we spearhead the industry in ethical and sustainable working environments. We work with leading brands in the US and Europe and provide design to delivery solutions in the intimate, sleep and casual wear product range

JOB DETAILS: 

Athi River. We are part of Hela Clothing a British apparel manufacturing group which has been operating in Srl Lanka for over two decades. We desire to enhance our skill capacities by inviting professionTals from the apparel industry to join our team. We seek to fill in the below position.

Deputy Manager - Operations (KENYA)
Operation team is responsible for directing a group of operations in the overall fulfillment of distribution centre (DC) operations. They ensure that strategic operational plans are developed and implemented within the site, and analyze and report on the achievement of site key performance indicators (KPls)

The job;

•  Take part at monthly planning meetings. ensuring plant loading occurs as per budget whilst considering the allocated product mix, order sizes, production feasibility, technical, machinery and skill requirements
  
•  Ensure that all production processes as per the plan are available for the initiation of production by the Pre-Production Meeting and liaise with Merchandising, Raw Material Stores. Fabric Technology, PCU, Cutting and Finished Good Stores to ensure that all materials are released for production on time
  
•  Monitor and confirm raw material deliveries are as per the purchase orders and ensure any discrepancies in raw material and other resources deliveries are promptly informed to the merchandisers in order to fulfill customer order requirements
  
•  Ensure availability of resources, apply techniques / methods / systems for process improvement of stores operations, implement customer compliance strategies / systems in order to ensure continuous improvement in stores operations
  
•  Check ernbellishment/ special requirements of the planned styles. coordinate with embellishment teams to secure embellishment capacities whilst monitoring the embellishment loading plan and output plan in order to provide an uninterrupted input flow to production
  

Qualifications;

•  Possess full/part qualification in a recognized accounting body (ClMA/ CA/ ACCA) or following a Degree in Finance and Accounting at a recognized university
  
•  Work experience of minimum 4-5 years preferably in the Apparel Industry covering areas of Finance, Planning and Supply Chain Management
  
•  Those with an experience working in a FMCG or Manufacturing industry are encouraged to apply.